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Each other. >> to me, that's an approach to take you off the fiscal cliff. i think what the president is doing, what the speaker are doing what, did they do over the weekend? they talked together over the phone. did you see them sitting down at a table together? you saw them shaking hands. you watch the president -- or you watched the speaker right after the election and say here's revenues. we want to continue tax rates, but you need revenues. republicans are putting revenues on the table. where are the cuts to government to gets us to solve the problem? if you just do the tax rate, you don't...

The very wealthy. i was there! i voted against attach i said, no, we can't afford that. now, all of a sudden, they are so seized with the concern about the debt that they created-- congressman ryan? >> let's not forget that they came in with one-party control. when barack obama was elected, his party controlled everything, they had the ability to do everything of their choosing and look at where we are right now. they passed the stimulus. the idea that we could borrow $831 billion, spend it on all of these special-interest groups and it would work out fine, unemployment would never get to 8%...

Credit card. $1 trillion tax cut for the very wealthy. i was there. i voted against him. i said, no, we can't afford that. now all of a sudden these guys are so seized with the concern about the debt they created. >> congressman ryan? >> let's not forget that they came in with one-party control. when barack obama was elected, his party controlled everything. they had the ability to do everything of their choosing and look at where we are right now. they passed the stimulus. the idea that we could borrow $831 billion, spend it on all these special interest groups and it would work out just fine...

Thing. the american sim of freedom and free enterprise has done more to help the poor, more to produce opportunity and prosperity and job security than any other economic system ever designed. we don't want to replace it. we want to revitalize it. we want to revive it. we want to renew it. let's never forget that. [applause] you know, when you take a look at the choice in front of us it becomes pretty darn clear. the president inherited a difficult situation when he came into office. that's obvious. that's clear. the problem is he hasn't made things better. when he said, if we can just go borr...

Continuing resolution so it gets us into march of 2013. there's a potential it could go six months beyond that, correct? >> well, sure. i mean, they always like to give a new congress a couple of months to get onto their feet. they're not in for most of january. the new congress is usually sworn in january 3rd. there's another thought down the road are going to kick this fiscal cliff, extend that a little bit further onto the horizon as well because they won't be able to come to a geemt these monumental issues about the tax code, spending, defense cuts about payroll tax and income taxes in a l...